Youth Day commemorates the day in 1976, when many protests took place as students responded to the governments decision to make Afrikaans the medium through which all subjects would be taught. This event has become known as the Soweto Uprising. Now Youth Day is a day when many activities are arranged for the young people across the different provinces of South Africa. In Macassar, the municipality had arranged a rugby competition and...
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On Monday, Sir Lowry’s Pass played their first competitive games against Macassar in a mini tournament. Sir Lowry’s Pass managed to field two teams and Macassar had one team. These games enabled the girls in Sir Lowry’s Pass to experience what competitive Netball is like and apply the skills they have been learning the last couple of months. Macassar won the competition, but Sir Lowry’s Pass did manage to win...
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Temperatures dropped and the rain arrived last week in the Cape. Consequently, a number of our coaching sessions had to be done indoors. The picture above shows our Lwandle boys acting out a scenario where they might have to work together as part of a team. The boys worked very well together and demonstrated excellent team work skills. They also had lots of fun in the process.
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This month’s Games Week was extremely successful. Our Macassar Netball team played against Helderberg College in a closely fought contest. The girls learnt a lot about about this month’s lifeskill Teamwork in this game and fought back hard in the second half to finish losing 6-5, which was very good after being 4-1 down at half time. The Lwandle boys played against a team from Chris Nissen Park and after an excellent game...
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Two weeks ago, we began coaching Netball in Sir Lowry’s Pass. We have been developing relationships with a group called His Ark, who are also working in Sir Lowry’s Pass, and this has given us an opportunity to coach around 20 girls Netball every other week. Already, after two sessions, we have seen the girls’ confidence grow and we look forward to developing their Lifeskills along with Netball in the coming...
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Last week, an American team called Samaritans Feet visited our boys in Lwandle to give them some new shoes. This was a great opportunity to introduce the boys to people from a different culture and to provide for their basic needs. We continue to look for opportunities to work with other organisations who desire to see the communities we are working with uplifted. As you can see the boys were very pleased with their new...
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